Help me blast that verucca

[Mythreeknights]

I have tried: banana skin, ACV, duct tape, gouging it out with a penknife, scraping it with a razor, freezing it, about 3 tonnes of bazuka gel, salt water, wearing a plaster non stop to try to suffocate it and kill it, ignoring it. Nothing has worked and I've had it for over 4 years now and it is painful!! Someone give me hope. I've also got a wart on my finger, and I've got a theory that until the 'mother' wart/verucca on my foot goes, I can't get rid of this one either. Send me some encouragement.

Eventually your immune system will kick in & it will go. Until then there is nothing you can do about it, unfortunately.

You've had it for four years?? Crikey! Have you seen the doctor about it?

Lurking with interest. I've got a stubborn one as well. I've used sharp implements to gouge actual craters out of my foot to no avail.

My GP said if they bleed (because I've been hacking away at them) then my body will recognise they are there and kill them, but actually, evidence suggests that when they bleed, they just get bigger and stronger. How my immune system doesn't realise they are there is beyond me!!

I remember hearing that they will all disappear but can take up to 10 years. Dig deep...!

Eventually your immune system will kick in & it will go

No not always. Have had mine for 20 years. I've been lazy with them, but managed to make one go by continuously cutting/gouging down into it with scissors etc, then lacing it with the strongest salicylic acid I could find (Bazuka was never strong enough, I went with Verrugon as it was 50%). I then overlaid THAT with I think it was called Sallactol as it dried in a sealed layer.

Not sure how helpful this is because I’m in Aus and not sure if you can get something similar, BUT my daughter had a fairly large one clear up in a couple of weeks with stuff called Uptons paste. It’s incredible stuff. Very strong so you have to protect surrounding skin upon application but definitely worth the effort.
I googled it and couldn’t see a similar thing in uk but maybe you could show it to a pharmacist? Here I had to get it at the compounding chemist where they are still able to mix products up for patients like they did years ago. Not sure whether any of that helps but good luck.

I had a bloody stubborn one for YEARS. Two trips for electrolysis - which cost around £30 in total - and it disappeared within around 2 weeks. I was gonsmacked!

Silver Nitrate worked for my daughter's stubborn verruca.

My son had one for months, tried Bazooka, nail varnish, duct tape everything. What got rid of it in the end was soaking his feet in the evening, giving the verucca a once over with one of those Newton chiropody sponges ( I suppose the idea is to rough up the surface) then a layer of Sudocreame with a plaster over the top. We did in 4 times in a row and then it just feel out. I was amazed. Might be worth a go.

@WhiteWineAndMagnums what’s electrolysis please?

Lurking as DS has the mutha of all mosiac verrucae and we cannot shift it, like OP

I saw a needling treatment but at £300 a pop reluctant to fork out unless nothing else works

Sorry to hijack OP

My DD had two and we suffocated with germaline I never bothered with bazooka or that. Just germaline a plaster then duck tape and a sock. Only to be taken off when a new one need put on. Came off in a month.

Honestly, they won't go until your imuune system decides that it's time. It may seem as though it's the treatment, but it was just tie anyway. Some interventions may help things along a bit by irritating the area, but the immune system still has to do it's job. I had one for years & tried everything. Forgot about it for a while & one day realised that it had gone. It was HUGE.

We went to the doctor and she cut it out of my SD's foot with a scalpel. She had some sort of surgery qualification and gave her an injection first. Cut a massive hole, packed it up and bandaged. Poor thing cried when the anaesthetic wore of but it got rid. Way easier than months of treatment.

Twenty years .

I've got one I've had for 12 years and I can't shift the bastard. I file it down with a foot thingy (looks like a mini carpenter's rasp, but for feet) which seems to stop it getting too painful.

Have you tried taking Thuja? I had some stubborn warts on my hands and took some for a couple of days and they fell off in my sleep!! Meant to be good for verrucas too

I’ve just posted about my verrucas on the disgusting confessions thread. I had loads on each foot, tried everything to get rid. One random day they just all died and fell out. I can only think my immune system kicked in and that was that. Never had another since.

Nothing I got from the chemist or other home made remedies worked for me.

I had a massive one for about 15 years, got it frozen off by the NHS (back when they'd do it). More recently, I've used Salactol - it's basically a much stronger version of Bazuka, it's in a tiny bottle, you paint it on with a little brush that's attached to the lid. It says to do it daily & file it each time... I don't, way too painful. I just leave it until it falls or peels off, then paint a fresh layer on, much less unpleasant. I've actually not had any for a couple of years, maybe I've finally beaten them!

My DD had several for four years. We tried everything, both shop bought and home remedies. The only thing that worked was apple cider vinegar. We put the padded corn plasters (the one with the hole in the middle) over each one and place a tiny ball of cotton wool soaked in ACV into the centre and covered it with a plaster. After a few days the 10 smaller ones went. The largest one took a few weeks. Every evening (after showering) we'd scrap the front out of the centre of the verucca with a blade and then re-cover it using the same method. Then one day the root died and the verucca fell out. The skin grew back and you'd never know it had ever been there. Asda sell huge bottles of ACV for a few pounds and the corn plasters were Wilko's own.

You have my sympathy. I cut mine out with a sterilised knife.

Oh and I used sterilised tweezers too.

Thuja tablets (and cream) have so far worked for molloscum (sp?)and an horrendous verruca for my DD. Oh and a skin tag/growth on her lip.

I do dry needling which works very well. I did one about 6 inches in diameter which a client had for 15 years and it was gone in 2 months. Private podiatrists charge about £200 for the procedure and we do a local anaesthetic ankle block.

I had 4 on one foot for years. Tried everything over the counter that I could get my hands on. Eventually gave up and paid to have them removed by a podiatrist. I don't think home remedies / OTC stuff works unless you catch them when they're really tiny.

I did one about 6 inches in diameter

Practically a third foot

Can I ask how long it was painful for afterwards? My DS does lots of sport. Thank you